Samsung’s huge push for AI performance will proceed subsequent yr and it’ll contain the Exynos 2500, in line with X poster Connor/콘어/コナー. Identical to Samsung makes use of an AMD-designed GPU in its flagship chips, it’s going to additionally use a Google-designed TPU.
The TPU or Tensor Processing Unit has been part of Pixel telephones for a number of years and is built-in into the Tensor chipsets which can be co-developed with Samsung. It’s one among a number of varieties of AI accelerators and is in heavy use by Google merchandise – you may even hire larger variations of the TPU from Google Cloud if you’re working with AI.
It will give telephones utilizing the Exynos 2500 – Galaxy S25 sequence for starters – entry to the Google machine studying APIs that may run fashions on the machine. The present iteration of Galaxy AI is generally cloud-powered, since though Samsung beefed up the AI {hardware} on the Exynos 2400, it’s nonetheless not sufficient.
Based mostly on Connor’s publish, the brand new flagship chipset may even embody two Neural Processing Models – G-NPU and S-NPU. The “G” stands for “basic” and is a extra versatile model of a fixed-function NPU. These have been part of Exynos for the reason that 2200.
The newest report claims that the Galaxy S25 sequence will use each Exynos 2500 and Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chips, not simply Exynos as a earlier rumor claimed. Qualcomm has been pushing AI acceleration too – the 8 Gen 3 can run fashions with as much as 10 billion parameters – however its AI Engine is totally different from the TPU. Perhaps the variations might be smoothed over by Android’s machine studying API’s?
Leaked information means that the Exynos 2500 might be fabbed on Samsung’s second era 3nm node (3nm GAP/SF3). It would function a Cortex-X5 at 3.2GHz, three A730 cores at 2.3-2.5GHz, two extra A730 at a decrease clock velocity and 4 A520 cores. It would use an Xclipse 950 GPU, however no particulars can be found on it.
For comparability, the Tensor G4 (which is able to possible be the supply of the TPU design) might be fabbed on Samsung’s 4LPP+ node (after talks with TSMC fell by means of). Which means the Exynos 2500 needs to be quicker and extra environment friendly, even in AI duties (which was Google’s stronghold till now).